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Speaker Line-up
Our speakers represent leading companies, research institutions, and industry organizations across the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. Bringing extensive expertise and practical experience, they contribute valuable perspectives to this year’s ECCPM Forum. Get to know the experts behind the programme.
OPENING SESSION
BUILDING RESILIENT PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Keynote: Olivier Girard
European Commission Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
Securing Medical Countermeasures for Crises: Innovative Industrial Policy Tools at the Service of Europe’s Resilience
SESSION 1
ADVANCES IN DRUG SUBSTANCE MANUFACTURING
Keynote: Lana Borukhova
Sanofi
Agility by design: Driving smart manufacturing through hybrid flow &
batch integration
Clifford O'Ciardha
Pfizer
FAST: Pfizer’s journey into continuous manufacturing
C. Oliver Kappe
RCPE / UNI Graz
PHARMECO – Advancing Safe and Sustainable by Design Practices in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Philippe Roth
WAB
Hands‑On Mechanochemistry: When the World Needs You to Shake Things Up
SESSION 2
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN DRUG PRODUCT MANUFACTURING
Keynote: Alexandre Bonnassieux
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Evolving manufacturing strategies at Vertex – From continuous manufacturing to hybrid development
Vincenzina Salvato
Chiesi Farmaceutici
Advanced drug product manufacturing technologies for pulmonary delivery
Daniel Bischof
Merck KgaA
Solubility enhancement via In-Silico Co-Crystal screening
Amrit Paudel
Johnson & Johnson
Dynamics of powder tribocharging in continuous drug product manufacturing
Filipe Gaspar
Hovione
Continuous tableting: accelerating the journey from emerging technology to mainstream manufacturing – real-world insights
SESSION 3
ADOPTION OF ADVANCED DRUG PRODUCT MANUFACTURING
Thomas Brinz
Syntegon Pharma Solid
Moving from machine parameters towards product quality attributes: A paradigm shift in tablet compression control?
Sven Borchert
Pharmatec
Contribution of high-speed in line inspection to automated and DoE based development of tablets
Julia Großeheilmann
Horiba Europe
Integrated PAT for advanced drug product manufacturing: Combining raman and laser diffraction analytics
Karsten Keller
Keller Consultancy
A new continuous oligonucleotide synthesizer
SESSION 4
DIGITAL & GREEN (TWIN) TRANSFORMATION
Keynote: James Holman
GEA
Developing sustainable standardised manufacturing solutions using the ConsiGma Direct Compression platform
Thomas Maischberger
ZETA
From pharma’s R&D rush to Next-Gen facilities: How project delivery is bridging the AI gap
Daniel Markl
University of Strathclyde
AI and robotics for sustainable drug product design
Sara Fathollahi
DFE Pharma
Tiered microplastics assessment of polymeric excipients: A regulatory framework for green compliance under EU REACH
Nicolin Govender
University College London
Teaching Machines the Physics of Powder: Digital Twins for Continuous Manufacturing
SESSION 5
MODELING & DIGITALIZATON
Keynote: Salvador Garcia
Eli Lilly and Co
Systems engineering approaches for model based pharmaceutical process development and optimal operation
Fanny Stauffer
UCB Pharma
Mechanistic modeling for solid oral dosage forms: foundations for an industrial roadmap
Geert Craessaerts
Johnson & Johnson
Transforming pharmaceutical development; AI and physics-based modelling going hand in hand
Rouven Weiler
BASF
Particle simulation & digitalization in the chemical industry
Dan Blackwood
Pfizer
Next-Generation continuous manufacturing for solid oral dosage forms